This conference aims to present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016; explore China's use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghur; introduce the biopolitics of China's "war on terror" in countering Uyghur people as an ethnicity; and open a dialogue on our role as leaders, educators, and technologists in engaging with China while being aware of its massive human rights violations.

Please note: This event requires a ticket. Click here to register.

Speakers:

Joi Ito: Director, MIT Media Lab,  Professor of the Practice of Media

Sean R. Roberts: Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, International Development Studies Program, George Washington University

Darren Byler: Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington

Rian Thum: Associate Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans

Jessica Batke: Senior Editor at ChinaFile 

Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies, Radius at MIT, Harvard University’s Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, MIT Student Activities Office, MIT CIS Human Rights and Technology Program